Dino Verde

{{Infobox person | name = Dino Verde | image = Dino Verde 1955.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Dino Verde in ''Radiocorriere'' magazine (1955) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth-date|13 July 1922}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = {{death-date and age|1 February 2004|13 July 1922}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Writer }} '''Dino Verde''' (13 July 1922 – 1 February 2004) was an Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

== Life and career == Born '''Edoardo Verde''' in Naples, in 1943 he started working in the satirical magazine ''Marc'Aurelio''.<ref name="il tem">{{cite news|last1=Redazione online|title=Addio a Verde Col Dadaumpa lanciò le Kessler|url=http://www.iltempo.it/cultura-spettacoli/2004/02/02/addio-a-verde-col-dadaumpa-lanci-ograve-le-kessler-1.852607|accessdate=6 July 2014|newspaper=Il Tempo|date=2 February 2004}}</ref><ref name=corri>{{cite news|last1=Maurizio Porro|title=Addio a Dino Verde, la penna del varietà|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2004/febbraio/02/Addio_Dino_Verde_penna_del_co_9_040202063.shtml|accessdate=6 July 2014|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=2 February 2004}}</ref> Since the late 1940s Verde wrote revues and comedy plays for the most popular comedians of the time, including Macario, Nino Taranto, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Riva and Riccardo Billi, Carlo Dapporto.<ref name="il tem"/><ref name="corri"/> In 1949 he started collaborating with EIAR, where he specialized in writing sketches and parody songs.<ref name="il tem"/><ref name="corri"/>

Active on television since 1955, he was author of some of the most popular RAI variety shows, such as ''Canzonissima'', ''Doppia coppia'' and ''Studio Uno''.<ref name="il tem"/><ref name="corri"/>

Verde was also a successful songwriter; he wrote lyrics for two Sanremo Music Festival winning songs, "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" by Domenico Modugno/Johnny Dorelli and "Romantica" by Renato Rascel/Tony Dallara.<ref name="il tem"/><ref name="corri"/> Other hits include Modugno's "Resta cu'mme", Kessler Twins' "Dadaumpa", Rita Pavone's "Il ballo del mattone", Mina's "Una zebra a pois", Sophia Loren's "Che m'è 'mparato a fa".<ref name="il tem"/><ref name="corri"/><ref name="la re">{{cite news|last1=fl. b.|title=Morto Dino Verde, padre del varietà|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2004/02/02/morto-dino-verde-padre-del-varieta.100morto.html|accessdate=6 July 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=2 February 2004}}</ref>

His last work was the 2004 stage play "Bentornato avanspettacolo".<ref name="la re"/>

His son Gustavo is also a television author.<ref name="il tem"/>

==Selected filmography== {{div col}} * ''I, Hamlet'' (1952) * ''If You Won a Hundred Million'' (1953) * ''Rascel-Fifì'' (1957) * ''Husbands in the City'' (1957) * ''Cerasella'' (1959) * ''Ciao, ciao bambina!'' (1959) * ''Uncle Was a Vampire'' (1959) * ''Il vedovo'' (1959) * ''Noi siamo due evasi'' (1959) * ''Tough Guys'' (1960) * ''I due toreri'' (1965) * ''Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger'' (1965) * ''I due sanculotti'' (1966) * ''I barbieri di Sicilia'' (1967) * ''Argoman the Fantastic Superman'' (1967) * ''Dirty Heroes'' (1967) * ''The Nephews of Zorro'' (1968) * ''The Two Crusaders'' (1968) * ''Zingara'' (1969) * ''Satiricosissimo'' (1970) * ''I due assi del guantone'' (1971) * ''Ma che musica maestro'' (1971) * ''House of 1000 Pleasures'' (1973) {{div col end}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{IMDb name|0893764}}

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